I will be uploading some pictures from the long weekend for those that missed the excitement. And no, I don't mean pictures of my poor dead Frank, but of Bob the Power-Cleaner-Man.
Or if any of you feel like doing something...anything...
Well, I saw the bear's ass anyway. I heard noise around 9:30 and thought it might be the racoon on the porch. I had taken the the bird feeder down so I was surprised to hear it trying to get onto the roof.
Well.
It was trying to get to the hummingbird feeder. And it wasn't a racoon. It was a bear. Before you ask me how tall it was, I saw it when it was on all fours...heading off the porch. I saw an enormous bear ass. Not to be confused with a bare ass.
I uploaded a little panorama of the inside of the cabin to get y'all excited about summertime. Just click on the picture below and the QuickTime movie should either download or launch in a browser (if you right-click, you might be able to choose what you want to do with the file.)
And here's hoping someone other than me uploads a review of Monday's Neil Young concert!!!
Looks like summer to me!
For those that missed it, there was a strange alien presence at the cottage last weekend...and I don't mean the flying squirrels!
Have you ever seen anything like it?
Well, due to huge demand this past weekend, I finally crunched a bunch of summer pictures...from the party and stuff. Now I didn't do anything fancy, just put them all in a folder because I'm tired.
Anyway, click here to see 'em... there's a folder in the folder that are the party pics.
Have fun.
I closed my cottage today and then went to Glen Orchard to see how things were. The water is high and the floating dock was not even touch the shore (Dad said he had pulled it up even more so the water is even higher!) here's a pic of what I saw -- notice the end of the canoe is even in the water:
So tied off the dock as best I could...couldn't move it too far onto shore cuz there ain't much shore. And then I had to get the canoe out of the water...it's a heavy beast so I couldn't move it up to the cottage alone. if you click on the picture below, you can see a movie of how I moved it up but I'm not comfortable with how it's sitting:
Anyway, I did my best. They had 3 mice, I had 2 and a rogue paw in a runaway trap!
A beautiful blue sky and sun day at the cottage today. I wanted to skate on both Stewart Lake and Butterfly Lake as there was next to no snow on the lakes, just ice...the best time to skate. But I wasn't sure if it would be thick enough everywhere so I played it safe (as I was alone.) Here are some pics from this incredible day:
And the ice on both lakes was moaning too! making incredible sounds as it was freezing and melting at the same time. Like an alien moose call. or something.
Stewart lake had some dusting of snow in my bay, but the rest, pure ice!
It was too cold to stay overnight last weekend. Goodness knows I tried. Stayed until 3:30 when it started to snow a bit and the temperature only got to 8 C. I would have burned through all the wood.
Wanted to shovel a rink but since Howard wimped out and didn't come up, it would have been a ton of work alone. Sigh. Maybe in February...?
Spent Saturday and Sunday sitting in the sun on the deck watching a ton of birds - chickadees, two kinds of Nuthatch, Woodpecker, one Blue Jay, and a dozen Common Redpolls! They must winter here but disappear for summer. I'll upload a photo later...very finch-like but distinct.
Then I looked at the roof...
...and Howard and I tackled it (mostly Howard.) Best Leap Year in a long time!
They're kinda finchy...
I couldn't get too close to get the real details...
But I did zoom in on one so you can see the colour...
And then I over-exposed the picture so you could REALLY see the colour!
Anyway, it's all very exciting isn't it? My friend's mum who lives on a little lake in Bala and is a wildlife photographer says she saw an albino Redpoll! Now THAT's exciting!
So I went to Mum and Dad's cottage because they got a load of wood. I thought I'd be nice and stack it.
So I did.
And I also saw 11 ducks with no one around to feed 'em.
I didn't feed them. I just went home.
Some pics that I took today. There was one dead mouse... on top of the dishwasher again!
Signs of sledders everywhere!
The parking area was absolutely ice (with a dusting of snow on it.) I had to be careful because there was no Mr. Zabel this time!
Shoulda brought my skates!
On Saturday morning, I woke up to a winter fog over the lake:
Which made the trees look like beautiful icicles...really lovely. Even the chickadees enjoyed the crispy white trees:
Ahhhhhhhh! The breakfast of champions!
I think someone who took pictures of those MASSIVE brontasuarus ribs should post them here. Don't you think?
Mmmmm! Long weekend ribs! Mmmmm!
Thought this was pretty cute. Is that Ellen rapping?
Here's team # 1 with Vahan:
...and team # 2:
This was early this morning...
Then some scenes in my backyard...
Louis so much wanted to go out...
...but decided to watch the birds and squirrels from inside:
And now I better start shovelling!
Shovelled a ton of snow to clear paths to wood and propane tank in the backyard:
And of course did the deck:
which left a pile of heavy snow almost as high as that tree in front of my cottage!
At least I didn't have to shovel rain!
Howard took some awesome pics when we were snowshoeing this weekend. We went on the marsh in behind my cottage:
The snow's pretty much gone at the cottage but the driveway is gross where it was used all winter. Our driveway alone is fine, it's just this entrance area. I think this was a truck belonging to the people doing work on one of the cottages.
As seen on the RBC website. With his Blue Rodeo buddy, Jim:
And with Gushue too! What a guy! What a suit!
That's our Suit-Greg!
I went up north today to look around and thought I'd better check to see if the Hemlock was taken down at Mum and Dad's...
Wow, how's that for an open view! Nothing but stump!
And some saw dust:
And a big old pile of burnt remains (or is that burned?)
For those who want to download a video of it, you can do so by clicking here (be warned, it's jiggly and could cause vomiting.)
Poor old tree, here's all that's left!
Mmmm, what a delicious weekend!
Too bad Kelly and Jason missed it!
Rock reached perfection in 1974...a scientific fact!
Stylin'!
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